The year 2010 has shown once more that the glorious era of the pure Norwegian Black Metal is gone – I can’t really remember any outstanding album released within this year- but it seems that some record companies still welcome every Norwegian newcomer. On "Myths And Battles From The Path Beyond" THURS from Stavanger / […]
Throneum is as far as I know quite big in Poland and this band has already released numerous of split releases since they changed their name from Throne (the band’s original name) to Throneum back in early 2000. Talking about Poland , don’t expect anything in the vein of their other country mates since Throneum […]
Even though the nucleus of this Swedish bunch is already around since 1991, it still took THRONEAEON further four years of member and name changes to finally enter the Death Metal underground more seriously. This deadly and very self confident four piece used to put out demos in 1995 ("Demo’95") and 1997 ("Carnage") and even […]
Chicago’s youngsters DIAMOND PLATE (they are just 15,3 years old in average!!) got together in March of 2004 and started to play their first shows in the summer of 2005. Just like most of the younger bands they also went through a couple of line-up changes until they recorded their first EP "Mountains Of Madness" […]
"Thrash Clash" is a rather fresh CD series from Stormspell Records, dedicated to new promising Thrash bands. The good thing about it is, that (so far) all of the bands have delivered their Thrash Metal in the classic old school style, which makes it even more enjoyable to me. The first edition features TAKING OVER […]
Sung in Spanish, the new THORNAFIRE record will make sense only to Spanish speakers. But, since fluency with another language has never been a requirement for Metal, listeners who don’t understand Spanish won’t be left out. The new record is abrupt and straightforward, almost like mechanized chaos; elegance to technical wizardy, all in the blink […]
To be honest I’m a little disappointed by the Canadian technical Death / Grind act’s third full-length since the weakness of its predecessor – the production – still has not been overcome and the complex material of THORAZINE can not fully develop the wicked and twisted force slumbering in most of the songs and especially […]
This is exactly the type of bands that I can’t stand at all! Pseudo pathetic Dark-Gothic-Doom-Progressive-whatever Metal (?) with a silly misleading bandname / logo and a wannabe intellectual attitude. Musically rather predictable with the usual dark growled (as well as "heroic" type) male vocals and (of course) an additional supposed-to-be-nice sounding female counterpart. Even […]
TERATO falls in the "don’t know who they are but hell they are promising" category for what I just heard. This is their debut release under the darkened wings of Worship Him Records and I must admit that they are a band to keep a close eye in the near future. I know this is […]
I was really looking forward to this release especially if it comes to the first participator TENEBRAE IN PERPETUUM and their "mayhemic" Black Metal interpretation. Their latest release was an impressive piece of Black Metal even if I have to admit that my opinion has not been widely shared. The final project of this Italian […]